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1957

1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.

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Events[edit]

January[edit]

• January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.
• January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket.
• January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns.
• January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
• January 15 – The film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is released in Japan.
• January 20
  • Dwight D. Eisenhowerisprivately sworn in for a second term, as President of the United States.
  • Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956).
• January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

February[edit]

• February 2 – President Iskander MirzaofPakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the Indus River, near Sukkur.
• February 4
  • France prohibits U.N. involvement in Algeria.
  • The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is decommissioned on March 3, 1980.
  • A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine in Bishop, Virginia, United States, kills 37 men.
• February 6 – The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison ("possibly of a heart attack"), on July 17, 1947
• February 10 – The Confederation of African Football is founded, at a meeting in Khartoum.
• February 15 – Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet Union.
• February 16 – Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens at cinemas in Sweden.
• February 17 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, United States, kills 72 people.
• February 18
  • Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
  • The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hangedatMount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.
• February 23 – The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc opens in Dakar.

March[edit]

• March 1
  • U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma.
  • Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay.
  • Sud Aviation forms, from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
• March 3 – Net als toen, sung by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, lyrics by Willy van Hemert), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (held at Frankfurt), for the Netherlands.
• March 6
  • United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent nation of Ghana.
  • Zodi Ikhia founds the Nigerien Democratic Front (FDN) in Niger.
• March 8 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
• March 14 – President Sukarno declares martial lawinIndonesia.
• March 17 – 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash: Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others are killed in a plane crash.
• March 20 – The French news magazine L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners.
• March 25 – The Treaty of Rome (Patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC; predecessor of the European Union) between Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
• March 27 – The 29th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Hollywood. Around the World in 80 Days wins Best Picture.

April[edit]

• April – IBM sells the first compiler for the Fortran scientific programming language.
• April 1 – The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr.
• April 5 – The Communist Party of India wins the elections in Kerala, making E. M. S. Namboodiripad its first chief minister.
• April 9 – Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping.
• April 12 – The United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self-rule on January 1, 1958.
• April 15
  • The Distant Early Warning Line is handed over by contractors to the U.S. and Canadian military.
  • White Rock secedes from Surrey, British Columbia, following a referendum.
• April 17 – Suspected English serial killer John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder, at the Old Bailey.
• April 24–25 – The 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occur, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
• April 30 – An annular solar eclipse was a non-central annular solar eclipse, that does not have a northern path limit. This was the last of 57 umbral solar eclipses of Solar Saros 118.

May[edit]

• May 2 – "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the South African national anthem, replacing "God Save the Queen", which is retained as a royal anthem.
• May 8 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem begins a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.^[1]
• May 15
  • Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.
  • Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years.
• May 16 – Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new Secretary General of NATO.
• May 24 – May 24 incident: Anti-American riots erupt in Taipei, Taiwan.^[2]
• May 30 – Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2–0 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, to win the 1956–57 European Cup (football).

June[edit]

• June 9 – Broad Peak, on the China-Pakistan border, is first ascended.
• June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Canada.
• June 27 – Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, U.S., killing 400 people.

July[edit]

• July 1
  • The International Geophysical Year begins.
  • The University of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  • Hugh Everett III publishes the first scientifically founded many-worlds interpretationofquantum mechanics.
  • Production of the Citroën Traction Avant automobile, begun in 1934, ceases.
• July 6 – At the age of fifteen, Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.
• July 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.
• July 14 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
• July 16 – United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
• July 25 – Tunisia becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba as its first president.
• July 28
  • The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khrushchev Thaw, opens in Moscow.
  • Heavy rains and mudslidesatIsahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
• July 29 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

August[edit]

• August 4 – Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins this season) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.
• August 31 – The Federation of Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom, subsequently celebrated as Malaysia's National Day. Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Yang di-Pertuan BesarofNegeri Sembilan, becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan AgongofMalaya. The country's new Constitution had come into force on August 27. The Alliance Party and its successor are the ruling coalition until 2018.

September[edit]

• September 9 – The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is enacted, establishing the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
• September 21
  • Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father Haakon VII.
  • The sailing ship Pamir sinks off the Azores in a hurricane.
• September 24 – Camp Nou, home stadium of FC Barcelona, officially opens in Barcelona, Spain.^[3]
• September 29 – The Kyshtym disaster occurs at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia.

October[edit]

• October 1 – The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil.^{[citation needed]}
• October 4
  • Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.^[4][5]
  • The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow delta wing interceptor aircraft is unveiled.^[6]
• October 9 – The Jodrell Bank radio telescopeinCheshire, England, is controlled from its control room for the first time.^[7][8]
• October 10 – Windscale fire: Fire at the Windscale nuclear reactor on the north-west coast of England releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment, including iodine-131.^[9][10]
• October 11 – The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer at the MIT Computation Center as part of Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• October 20 – Two trains collide at YarımburgazinTurkey; 95 die.^[11][12][13]
• October 23 – Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni.
• October 27 – Celâl Bayar is re-elected president of Turkey.^[14]

November[edit]

• November 1 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connect Michigan's two peninsulas.^[15]
• November 3 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with the first animal to orbit the Earth, a dog named Laika, on board.^{[16][17][18][19]} There is no technology available to return her to Earth.^[20][21]
• November 13
  • Flooding in the Po Valley of Italy leads to flooding also in Venice.^[22]
  • Gordon Gould invents the laser.^[23]
• November 15
  • Yugoslavia announces the end of an economic boycott of Francoist Spain (although it does not reinstitute diplomatic relations).^[24]
  • 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash: A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight leaves 45 dead.^[25][26]
• November 16 – Adnan Menderes of the Democrat Party forms the new government of Turkey (23rd government, last government formed by DP and Menderes).
• November 30
  • Indonesian president Sukarno survives a grenade attack at the Cikini School in Jakarta, but six children are killed.^[27]
  • 1957 New Zealand general election: The Labour Party defeats the governing National Party, with Walter Nash succeeding Keith Holyoake as Prime Minister.^[28]

December[edit]

• December 1 – In Indonesia, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.
• December 4 – The Lewisham rail crash in London, UK, leaves 92 people dead.^[29]
• December 5 – All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.^[30]
• December 6 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, when the Vanguard rocket blows up on the launch pad.^[31]
• December 10 – Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize, for his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations.^[32]
• December 18 – A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.^[33]
• December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.^{[34][self-published source?]}

Date unknown[edit]

• Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies" had been summarily liquidatedinChina between 1949 and 1954.
• Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany.
• Raja Fashions, a tailoring business, is founded in Hong Kong.^[35]
• The so-called 'mound of Midas', the Great Tumulus near Gordium, is excavated.
• Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Styleofgraphic design.

Births[edit]

January[edit]

• January 1
  • Isabel Ordaz, Spanish actress
  • Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
• January 3 – Bojan Križaj, Slovenian alpine skier
• January 4 – Patty Loveless, American country music singer
• January 5 – Maartin Allcock, English multi-instrumentalist and record producer (d. 2018)
• January 6 – Nancy Lopez, American golfer
• January 7
  • Katie Couric, American television host^[36]
  • Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
  • Julian Solís, Puerto Rican former world bantamweight champion boxer
• January 8
  • David Lang, American composer
  • Dwight Clark, American football player (d. 2018)
• January 9 – Bibie, Ghanaian singer
• January 11
  • Bryan Robson, English footballer
  • Claude Criquielion, Belgian bike racer (d. 2015)
• January 12 – John Lasseter, American director, writer and animator
• January 13
  • Lorrie Moore, American writer
  • Daniel Scioli, Argentine politician and sportsman
• January 14
  • Anchee Min, Chinese writer
  • Wu Chengzhen, Chinese Buddhist abbess
• January 15 – Mario Van Peebles, African-American actor and director
• January 16 – Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor
• January 17 – Steve Harvey, African-American comedian, television host, radio personality and actor^[37]
• January 22
  • Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player (d. 2022)
  • Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
  • Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
• January 23 – Caroline, Princess of Hanover
• January 26 – Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• January 27
  • Frank Miller, American comic book writer
  • Janick Gers, British heavy metal guitarist
• January 29 – Grażyna Miller, Polish poet
• January 30 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)

February[edit]

• February 1 – Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer (d. 1999)
• February 2 – Phil Barney, French singer
• February 5 – Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress
• February 6
  • Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
  • Robert Townsend, African-American actor, comedian, director, and writer (Hollywood Shuffle)
• February 8 – Cindy Wilson, American rock singer (The B-52's)
• February 9 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
• February 11 – Mitchell Symons, British writer and journalist
• February 14 – Soile Isokoski, Finnish lyric soprano
• February 16 – LeVar Burton, African-American actor^[38]
• February 17 – Loreena McKennitt, Canadian singer, composer, harpist (Mummers' Dance)
• February 18
  • Marita Koch, German athlete
  • Vanna White, American game show presenter (Wheel of Fortune)
• February 19
  • Falco, Austrian rock musician (Rock Me Amadeus) (d. 1998)
  • Ray Winstone, British actor
• February 20 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
• February 23
  • Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009)
  • Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (d. 2004)^[39]
• February 25 – Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean politician, 9th President of Singapore
• February 27
  • Danny Antonucci, Canadian creator of the Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd n Eddy
  • Ralph Cox, American professional ice hockey player
  • Timothy Spall, English actor
• February 28
  • Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer
  • John Turturro, American actor, writer and director

March[edit]

• March 4 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor
• March 5 – Mark E. Smith, English singer (d. 2018)
• March 8 – Clive Burr, British heavy metal drummer (d. 2013)
• March 9 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
• March 10
  • Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born terrorist and founder of al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
  • Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
• March 11 – Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (d. 2020)
• March 12
  • Val Demings, American politician^[40]
  • Marlon Jackson, African-American singer
• March 13 – David Peaston, American singer (d. 2012)
• March 15
  • Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese actor
  • Park Overall, American film and television actress
• March 18 – György Pazdera, Hungarian rock bassist (Pokolgép)
• March 19 – Christopher Murray, American actor
• March 20
  • Vanessa Bell Calloway, African-American actress
  • Spike Lee, African-American film director and actor
  • Theresa Russell, American actress
• March 23
  • Edna Molewa, South African politician (d. 2018)
  • Teresa Ganzel, American comedian and actress
  • Lucio Gutiérrez, 41st President of Ecuador
  • Robbie James, Welsh footballer
  • Amanda Plummer, American actress
• March 24 – Jack Edwards, American play-by-play announcer
• March 26 – Leeza Gibbons, American television personality
• March 27 – Stephen Dillane, English actor
• March 28 – Paul Eiding, American actor and voice actor
• March 29 – Christopher Lambert, French-American actor
• March 30
  • Shen Yi-ming, Taiwanese Air Force general officer (d. 2020)
  • Paul Reiser, American comedian and actor
  • Ian Shelton, Canadian astronomer who discovered SN 1987A
• March 31
  • Marc McClure, American actor
  • Terry Klassen, Canadian voice actor and voice director

April[edit]

• April 1
  • J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician
  • Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019)
• April 2
  • Mark Alburger, American composer
  • Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress
• April 4
  • Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexican drug lord
  • Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
• April 5 – Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
• April 8 – Henry Cluney, Irish musician
• April 9 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011)
• April 10 – Ülle Kaljuste, Estonian actress
• April 12 – Vince Gill, American singer and songwriter
• April 14 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
• April 17
  • Afrika Bambaataa, American DJ and producer
  • Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress
• April 20 – Aviva Chomsky, history professor and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University
• April 21
  • Jesse Orosco, American baseball player
  • Herbert Wetterauer, German artist and author
  • Faustin-Archange Touadéra, 8th President of the Central African Republic
• April 22 – Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland
• April 23
  • Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (d. 2014)
  • Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
• April 24 – Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-British Former Labour Party politician and convicted sex offender^[41]
• April 25
  • Eric Bristow, English darts player (d. 2018)
  • Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, 7th Prime Minister and 8th President of Burkina Faso
• April 27 – Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
• April 28 – Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Cuban-born experimental filmmaker
• April 29
  • Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
  • Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (d. 2003)

May[edit]

• May 1 – Jo Jorgensen, American libertarian politician and academic
• May 3 – Jo Brand, English comedian
• May 5 – Richard E. Grant, English actor
• May 10 – Sid Vicious (John Beverley), English punk rock bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
• May 11 – Peter North, Canadian adult actor
• May 13 – Carrie Lam, Hong Kong civil servant
• May 14 – Daniela Dessì, Italian operatic soprano (d. 2016)
• May 15
  • Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
  • Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
• May 16
  • Joan Benoit, American Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner
  • Bob Suter, American professional ice hockey player (d. 2014)
• May 17 – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish rock singer and songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings) (d. 2003)
• May 18
  • Michael Cretu, Romanian–German new-age musician (Enigma)
  • Frank Plasberg, German journalist and television presenter
• May 20 – Yoshihiko Noda, 62nd Prime Minister of Japan
• May 21
  • Rebecca Jones, Mexican actress
  • Judge Reinhold, American actor
  • Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
• May 22
  • Albert Boonstra, Dutch swimmer
  • Shinji Morisue, Japanese gymnast
  • Gary Sweet, Australian actor
• May 23 – Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish singer and dancer (d. 1995)
• May 24
  • John Harrington, American professional ice hockey player
  • Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer^[42]
  • John G. Rowland, American Republican politician, Governor of Connecticut and felon
• May 26
  • François Legault, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec^[43]
  • Pontso Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
  • Dan Roodt, South African author and politician
• May 27 – Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion, English post-punk singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
• May 28 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
• May 29 – Ted Levine, American actor
• May 31 – Jim Craig, American professional ice hockey player

June[edit]

• June 1 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
• June 3 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• June 5 – Kim Tai-chung, Korean martial artist and former actor and Bruce Lee double (d. 2011)
• June 7 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and songwriter
• June 8
  • Scott Adams, American cartoonist (Dilbert)^[44]
  • Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
• June 12
  • Timothy Busfield, American actor
  • Gamal Al-Ghandour, Egyptian football referee
  • Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer
  • Tarek Shawki, Egyptian academic, 25th Minister of Education and Technical Education in Egypt
• June 14 – Maxi Jazz, British musician, rapper, singer-songwriter and DJ (d. 2022)^[45]
• June 15 – Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
• June 19 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• June 21
  • Michael Bowen, American actor
  • Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal, Archbishop of Manila
• June 23 – Frances McDormand, American actress
• June 25 – William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore
• June 27 – Erik Hamrén, Swedish football player
• June 28
  • Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
• June 29 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• June 30 – Silvio Orlando, Italian actor

July[edit]

• July 1
  • Erdeniin Bat-Üül, Mongolian politician
  • Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
• July 2 – Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
• July 3
  • Shan Goshorn, American Cherokee artist (d. 2018)
  • Ken Ober, American actor and game show host (d. 2009)
• July 4
  • Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
  • Jenny Seagrove, English actress
  • M. Nasir, Singaporean-Malaysian poet, singer-songwriter, composer, producer, actor and film director
  • Dmitry Nazarov, Soviet-Russian actor
• July 5 – Doug Wilson, Canadian ice hockey
• July 6 – Chong Eng, Malaysian politician
• July 7 – Mohd Puad Zarkashi, Malaysian politician
• July 9
  • Paul Merton, English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter
  • Marc Almond, English singer
  • Kelly McGillis, American actress
• July 10 – Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war activist
• July 12
  • Götz Alsmann, German television presenter, musician and singer
  • Rick Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003)
• July 13
  • Lília Cabral, Brazilian actress
  • Tony Vega, Puerto Rican singer
  • Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director
• July 17 – Shinobu Otake, Japanese actress
• July 18 – Nick Faldo, British golfer
• July 21
  • Jon Lovitz, American actor and comedian
  • Stefan Löfven, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden
• July 23 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
• July 24 – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbek politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and 2nd President of Uzbekistan
• July 26
  • Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
  • Nana Visitor, American actress
• July 27 – Hansi Müller, German footballer
• July 29
  • Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
  • Fumio Kishida, 100th Prime Minister of Japan^[46]

August[edit]

• August 2 – Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, Malaysian politician (d. 2011)
• August 4
  • Rupert Farley, British actor and voice actor
  • John Wark, Scottish footballer
• August 6 – Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
• August 7 – Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
• August 9 – Melanie Griffith, American actress
• August 10 – Juli Básti, Hungarian actress
• August 11 – Richie Ramone, American rock drummer (Ramones)
• August 14 – Peter Costello, Australian politician
• August 15 – Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
• August 16
  • Tim Farriss, Australian rock guitarist (INXS)
  • Laura Innes, American actress and director
  • Phil Murphy, American politician
• August 17 – Robin Cousins, British figure skater
• August 18
  • Carole Bouquet, French actress
  • Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
• August 19 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet
• August 20 – Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
• August 22 – Steve Davis, British snooker player
• August 24 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, author and actor^[47]
• August 25 – Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director^[48]
• August 26
  • Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer
  • Uzo, Nigerian-American film producer and director
• August 27 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• August 28
  • Ivo Josipović, President of Croatia
  • Rick Rossovich, American actor
  • Daniel Stern, American actor
  • Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist, philosopher
• August 29
  • Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish musician (d. 2001)
  • Shirō Sagisu, Japanese composer^[49]
• August 30 – Manu Tuiasosopo, American football player
• August 31
  • Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's)
  • Ingrid Washinawatok, Native American activist (d. 1999)

September[edit]

• September 1 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born American singer
• September 6 – José Sócrates, 117th Prime Minister of Portugal
• September 7
  • Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish athlete
  • John McInerney, British-German singer-songwriter (Bad Boys Blue)
• September 8 – Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezuelan singer
• September 11 – Preben Elkjær, Danish footballer
• September 12
  • Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian
  • Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer^[50]
  • Rachel Ward, English-born actress
  • Hans Zimmer, German composer
• September 13
  • Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines
  • Cesare Bocci, Italian actor
  • Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
• September 16 – David McCreery, Irish footballer
• September 18 – Mark Wells, American professional ice hockey player
• September 19
  • Chris Roupas, Greek-American basketball player
  • Mark Acheson, Canadian film, television and voice actor
• September 20 – Sabine Christiansen, German journalist and television presenter
• September 21
  • Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor
  • Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
• September 22
  • Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor
  • Mark Johnson, American professional ice hockey player and coach
  • Dalia Reyes Barrios, Venezuelan art collector^[51]
• September 24 – Brad Bird, American animator, director, writer, producer and voice actor
• September 25 – Michael Madsen, American actor
• September 26 – Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer and football manager
• September 27 – Peter Sellars, American theatre director
• September 29 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian^[52]
• September 30 – Fran Drescher, American actress

October[edit]

• October 4 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor^[53]
• October 5 – Bernie Mac, African-American stand-up comedian and actor (d. 2008)^[54][55]
• October 7 – Jayne Torvill, British ice dancer and Olympian^[56]
• October 8
  • Magdalena Cajías, Bolivian academic, historian, and politician^[57]
• October 9 – Herman Brusselmans, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist^[58]
• October 10 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese manga artist^[59]
• October 11
  • Dawn French, British comedian^[60]
  • Eric Keenleyside, Canadian actor^[61]
• October 12 – Clémentine Célarié, French actress
• October 15
  • Mira Nair, Indian born-American film maker^[62]
  • Stacy Peralta, American director and skateboarder^[63]
• October 20 – Manuel Huerga, Spanish film director and screenwriter^[64]
• October 21
  • Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate^[65]
  • Steve Lukather, American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer^[66]
• October 22 – Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician^[67][68]
• October 23 – Paul Kagame, 4th President of Rwanda^[69]
• October 24 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian^[70]
• October 25 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (Bart Simpson from The Simpsons)^[71]
• October 26
  • Julie Dawn Cole, English actress^[72]
  • Bob Golic, American football player^[73]
• October 27
  • Jeff East, American actor^[74]
  • Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film director^[75]
• October 28
  • Ahmet Kaya, Turkish folk singer (d. 2000)^[76][77][78]
  • Stephen Morris, British drummer^[79]
• October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (Homer Simpson from The Simpsons)^[55]
• October 30
  • Richard Jeni, American stand-up comedian and actor (d. 2007)^[80]
  • Kevin Pollak, American actor^[81]
• October 31
  • Brian Stokes Mitchell, American actor and singer^[82]
  • Shirley Phelps-Roper, American political and religious activist^[83]
  • Robert Pollard, American musician^[84]

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